Christmas Presents 2010

Here's what I've been working on...

I put together this basket for James' parents. The idea came from a little gift set I saw. The gift set came with 4 ice cream bowls, an ice cream scoop and two small toppings. For the same price, I was able to put together this awesome gift basket.

I etched this votive holder for my cousin, Kristin. There is red filler to pad the candle in the box.

This is the votive holder I did for Kory, my cousin. You can see more of the filler in this one.

I bought this "Chinese food" gift bags in red. There is green filler at the bottom. Then the votive holder with filler and the candle. I included a gift card in each one. This is the inside of Kory's box and she has a $15 Blockbuster giftcard.

 This is the inside of Kristin's box. Same as Kory's but she is getting a $15 QT gas card.

My half-sister, Erin is a bit younger than my cousins so I was hesitant to make her a candle holder. My original idea was to make each of the girls a glitter ornament but they didn't turn out as I had hoped. I saved this idea by buying Cricut vinyl. I think it turned out super cute! I used Martha Stewart's fine glitter and Future floor polish to make the ornament.

Inside Erin's box is her glass glitter ornament and a $15 gift card.



Personalized Gift Bag

My friend is having a baby shower this weekend. When I went to buy a gift bag at our local wal-mart, they didn't have many baby bags to make room for Christmas.. So I purchased this one and jazzed it up just a bit.

Ornament Exchange

I'm attending an ornament exchange with some of the ladies that I work with. I purchased my ornament a while ago and figured I'd just put it in a gift bag and be done. But while I was shopping for some other things I came across this cute tin. It was perfect for my ornament.I wanted to personalize it just a bit.

Merry Christmas was cut from the Celebrate with Flourish lite cart at 1 3/4".

Baking

When I'm at work and we're slow, I flip through the recipe magazines that we had by the check outs. One day last week I found a recipe for Cheesy Chili Tots.. It sounded delicious so I copied down the recipe to try. Since I was off yesterday, I decided I'd make it for dinner.



Today was the vote for our union contract for work along with the political elections. For the union vote, we had to go out to Bridgeton... We left at 7am to get out there and get back before James had to be at work. We spent an hour in traffic there and back just so I could walk in, check a box and walk out. We made the most of it though. But since we were up so early, I was full of energy when I got home so I decided I'd bake this Gooey Snicker Cake that I've wanted to try.

It turned out really pretty! I'm not sure if it's supposed to look like that but it is super rich regardless.

Halloween Rag Wreath

I got this idea from here!

I picked up 6 Halloween fabrics from Hancock Fabrics on Monday during their Columbus Day Sale! I bought half a yard of each fabric and had lots left over. I cut 1in wide strips that were 5.5 inches long. From each fabric, I had 38 strips from each fabric, for a total of 228. I was sure I wasn't going to have enough but I used all but 8!

If I had the Halloween Cricut cartridge, I would cut a cute Happy Halloween cut for the center of it.. So maybe I'll add to it later..

Glass Etching

This was my first attempt at glass etching. I took a plain votive holder that I had laying around. I used contact paper that I bought from Target instead of using vinyl. There is room for improvement but definitely not bad for a first try.

Signs

These are signs that I made for a girl at work. They were made using my Cricut and the Don Juan cartridge.

I used brads to add details to the flowers.

Valentine's Day Present

This was made by my boyfriend as my Valentine's Day present in 2010. He did all the cutting by hand using an exacto knife. It's pretty fantastic. :)

Wedding with the Cricut

These are the cuts I made for my best friend's wedding. I used Design Studio and the Storybook cart. to weld the custom tags to decorate the packages.

(Last name blurred for privacy)

The last name was also on the presents also but it has been edited out.

This cut is available on the Storybook cartridge. This bag I decorated for her shower present.

She loved the "Happily Ever After" cut so much that she asked me to make more to decorate the card box with. :)

The card box that I wrapped with a table liner and a tulle bow. I didn't know the size of the box so it was pretty amazing that the larger cut was the perfect size. I added some little designs from the Storybook cart too.

Intro...

I decided to make this blog as a place to display the crafty things that I do. I don't consider my self to be very creative. I get a lot of ideas and inspiration from other blogs and pages that I see online. I want to be able to give credit to the people that inspire me by keeping this blog. Also hope to keep track of ideas through this blog.